The Ball is Wild

07/06/2022

It's video pinball time! In this new episode, Robert presents short reviews of two great little games: Mr. Flipper 🏃‍♂️ by Willem Rosenthal and Flipper Volcano 🌋 by Sokpop Collective.

https://theballiswild.net/4-videopins-mr-flipper-flipper-volcano/

30/07/2018

Inside "Yoku's Island Express"! Our interview with Mattias Snygg from Villa Gorilla has arrived. We talk about the long road to a wonderful video pinball adventure.

05/05/2018

Our classic interview with Jack "Jersey Jack" Guarnieri is online!

02/01/2018

We made a round-up of 2017's video pinball releases. Have a flippin' great 2018!

11/07/2017

There is a new pinball blog on the block! Check it out, the concept is really interesting.

TWIP - this week in pinball

03/05/2017

Brand new retro!

It's 1972, Harry Williams is "retired" and doing contract pinball design in California for Williams pinball (which he no longer owns.) He does some 60 designs, submits them to Williams, but none are made. Until now! Thanks to Duncan, we have the 1972 "white wood" of Typhoon, a lost Harry Williams design. (Note that we added the keyline artwork.) At the Ann Arbor pinball museum, and it can be played May 5-7 at our pinball show.

16/11/2016

Archer Plays Pinball. A story about a boy in Pinball Outreach Project's Summer Camp in Portland.

Essay, Pinball Culture / Archer Plays Pinball Nov 16, 2016 This story was written during Transatlantic Storytelling Summer School in Portland in August 2016. Archer approaches the machine, always confident. He has about just the right height for reaching the machine so his hands can have a tight gri...

25/07/2016

Bringing pinball to kids! We visited Pinball Outreach Project in Portland, Oregon, and did an interview with senior staff member Greg Dunlap.

28/02/2016

Indie band ROBB from Vienna are presenting the Austrian pinball community in their new music video.

Official Music Video by ROBB (c) 2016 Check out https://www.facebook.com/officialrobb iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/heatitms Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.n...

14/12/2015

Two Dutch pinball fans want to bring us a special app called "The Pinball Assitant". We did an interview with one of them.

Pinball Culture, Interview, App / The Pinball Assistant Dec 13, 2015 There is still few exchange between the dedicated pinball community that focusses on physical tables and casually interested people who know pinball primarily through software of the likes of “Pinball Arcade”, “ZEN Pinball” or olde…

05/12/2015

We visited Hungarian Pinball Museum and talked to founder Balázs Pálfi.

Interview, Pinball Culture / Europe’s biggest Pinball Museum Dec 5, 2015 I have always suspected that Hungary is a place with a special pinball community. Apart from the fact that you come across Hungarian players almost every time when you take part in tournaments all over Europe, two well known vi…

27/09/2015

We did an interview with "Momonga Pinball Adventures" developer Paladin Studios. Check out the game, it's really cute and fun.

Interview, Video Pinball / “Momonga Pinball Adventures” – Interview with Paladin Studios Sep 27, 2015 I am always excited when a pinball videogame comes out that is not first and foremost a simulation of physical pinball but instead brings in a creative take on the established silverball formula. Th…